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Quick Guide to Pest Control at Home

Published on May 22, 2010 in Ants, Bees, Earwigs, Flies, General Tips, Hornets, Mice, Rodents, Termites and Wasps. 0 Comments

Ants

  • Ants may be coming inside your home for food or shelter.
  • Insecticides are good for controlling an area for a short period of time.
  • Bait is best in most cases. Ants will take the food back to the queen. When she dies from the bait, the colony will die with her.

Bees, Wasps, Hornets

  • Spray insecticides (like RAID) are best defense against nesting flying pests.
  • Spray the nest at night or around dawn. This insures that the population is at the nest. Also, you’ll be less likely to be stung as they’re less aggressive at these times.
  • Remove the nest when after everything has been sprayed.

Earwigs

  • Earwigs like moist places.
  • Eliminate moist areas around the home’s foundation, crawl spaces and entry points using chalk or salt.
  • Insecticides will help around the foundation of the house.
  • They’re attracted to light like most bugs. Dimming or removing outdoor lighting may help thin the population.

Flies

  • Sanitation is the best defense against most flies.
  • Put away any food that is out.
  • Clean all counters and floors of food and debris.
  • Throw out the garbage.
  • Keep lids on garbage cans that are inside.
  • Fly paper does indeed help control the population, but won’t eliminate the problem.

Rodents, mice, or rats

  • Own a female cat. They’ll hunt and kill the mice for you without help from you.
  • Place mouse traps in areas you’ve seen the rodent previously.
  • Use peanut butter or cheese to bait traps.
  • If problem is large, use poison bait to quickly reduce the population.

Termites

  • Your best bet is to call an exterminator, pronto.

General

  • Be careful with poisonous baits with pets or children around the house.
  • Remove any food sources pests may have access to by putting all food into containers and cleaning up any crumbs or mess on the counters or floor.
  • Insecticides generally repel bugs rather than kill them. Despite this, they’re still helpful when it comes to pest control.

Best Way to Exterminate Mice on Your Own

Published on May 22, 2010 in Mice. 0 Comments

Mouse traps are highly effective ways of eliminating this kind of problem; you should be able to buy them at any department store on the cheap. Now you should bait these traps with crunchy style peanut butter. Peanut butter is hard for any mouse to run off with, and it should require them to stand on the trigger of the trap. Cheese, as I’m sure you heard, also works but it can more easily be ran off with and isn’t nearly as attractive to a mouse. You should place traps where ever you’ve seen mice crawling around or where there has been evidence of their movements, such as nimble marks or droppings.

Also remember mice, rats and any other rodent for that matter, are smart buggers. There’s a reason they do lab tests on them. Because of this, place the traps in their locations for a couple days before setting them to trigger. Most rodents will grow accustom to the trap being there, increasing its likelihood for success when actually baited and loaded to trigger.